People quit their jobs all the time. Maybe it’s over money, or long hours, or maybe it’s because of a stressful work environment. Whatever the reasons, the process of quitting typically starts when the employee provides their employer with a notice of resignation. There may be some hugs and a few tears, but usually that would be the extent of any real drama. Then there are the not so normal departures.

During the 1970's and 1980's, you couldn't watch a televised sports game without seeing him. The most recognizable fixture in sports actually despised everything about it. He was there for the network cameras. He was there to deliver a message to the world, a dire warning of impending doom. But wearing a large multi-colored Afro wig and a fur loin cloth didn't help his credibility. However, the triple life sentence he received dramatically changed that image. The world would come to know him as Rainbow Man.

Every year, Santa leaves his base of operation to bring Christmas cheer to billions of people around the world. However, the holiday season can also lead to Santa going a little crazy. Here are some stories that will make you think twice about messing with Santa Claus.

When a wealthy Manhattan socialite turned her mid-town mansion into luxury apartments, famous writers, musicians, and politicians lined up. The palatial brownstone, with its attractive address near Central Park and Madison Garden, was a New York City landmark and valued at almost $10 million. For years, things had been going well until a mysterious, yet charming businessman showed up one day offering cash for a short-term lease. Three weeks later, New York City police would launch one of the largest and strangest missing person cases in its history.

It's all fun and games until someone unwittingly assassinates a world figure. That's exactly what happened in 2017 to a couple of people who thought they were on a reality television show. Turns out they had unknowingly been recruited by a foreign government to carry out a deadly mission.

When Dr. Michael Mastromarino lost his license to practice dentistry, he found a new calling in a dark corner of the medical world, modern-day grave robbing. He and his crew of organ and tissue harvesters set up a vast network to collect and sell as much bio material as they could find. Too bad none of the families of the deceased knew about it.

Before Jack Idema became a tour boat captain in Mexico, the self-described super soldier moved to Afghanistan where he started a private prison. He ran it out of his rented townhouse and his team, Task Force Saber 7, used it to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists. Idema told everyone who asked that he worked for the US government. Problem was.......he didn't.

When Swedish journalist Kim Wall began writing a story on amateur rocket building in Denmark, there was no way for her to know that it would lead to her death....inside a submarine. The bizarre circumstances and surreal conclusion captured headlines around the world.

Using military-grade weapons and gear, two bank robbers turned the streets of North Hollywood, California into a war zone.

This episode is a little different. It's a collection of bizarre stories not quite long enough for their own episodes, but are so strange that they deserve a place in the podcast. Most importantly, these stories were submitted by listeners like you!

The situation would have seemed absolutely normal had it not been for the location. Two women casually walking between six lanes of speeding cars and trucks. In the blink of an eye they turned a busy UK highway into total chaos.

In the early morning hours, police were called to an apartment complex to investigate a reported assault. They arrived to find a man in the parking lot growling and hissing. He claimed to be a 500 year-old vampire and begged them to restrain him for their own safety. He told them he could not control his need to feed.

 As people in Chicago gathered around their TVs for the nightly news, their screens suddenly went black. Seconds later, a new image appeared on the screen. It was a masked figure in a coat and tie and what followed is still considered one of the most bizarre television hacking crimes in broadcasting history.

Terra exited her car and was immediately confronted by a man holding a knife. The Walking Dead fan knew that to kill a zombie you had to go for the brain. A minute later Terra called her mother and said “I’m really really sorry. I think I killed your husband.”

One day in October 1997, several police stations across the US received phone calls from a youth center in Spain. The caller identified himself as the director of the facility and stated that a teenage boy from America was there asking for help. The boy wouldn't give his name, so authorities in the US sent over the file of a missing teen closely matching the description. When the call ended, the man calling himself the director studied the missing boy’s file carefully. It wouldn’t be long before he would have to convince the world that he was the missing teenager.

31 year-old Gareth Williams was, by all accounts, an incredibly private person who disliked office small talk and did his best to avoid social events. Williams went to work for the equally private and secretive British intelligence service. However, his intensely private life would become very public when the government agent was found dead inside a padlocked duffle bag.

Criminals are always looking for ways to get away with murder. Insanity, self-defense, crimes of passion… Sleepwalking?

The story of the Barefoot Bandit continues. More stolen planes. More stolen speedboats and luxury cars. How much longer could he possibly elude authorities?   

The legend of the Barefoot Bandit is the story of an epic crime spree involving hundreds of burglaries and millions of dollars of stolen luxury cars, planes, and boats. The crimes went on for years and crossed state and international borders. The crimes earned the Barefoot Bandit the unenviable title of FBI’s Most Wanted. But what makes the story legendary is that the Barefoot Bandit - was a teenager.

Ahhhh maple syrup! The perfect addition to a stack of pancakes. Did you know that maple syrup is actually 10 times more valuable than crude oil? A group of Canadian black market thieves sure did. This is one of the most unusual crimes – ever!

In one of the creepiest murder cases in South Florida history, an innocent woman was gunned down by a clown delivering balloons and flowers.

On the afternoon of June 4th 2004, the small mountain town of Granby, Colorado would bear witness to a destructive scene that would last over two hours and leave their streets in ruins.